Lasers enable the U.S. Navy to fight at the speed of light. Armed with artificial intelligence (AI), ship defensive laser systems can make rapid, accurate targeting assessments necessary for today's ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars.

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

NASA just increased the odds that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 will strike our planet in 2032. The space agency claimed ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a ...

Webb Telescope captures stunning new images of HH 30, revealing a dynamic protoplanetary disc where planets form.

The space station and one other Easter egg — the site of NASA's next human moon landing — are hidden in this lucky photo.